Another interesting fact I forgot to mention in my post was that...

Another interesting fact I forgot to mention in my post was that IRE was called BridgeDFS (ASX: BDF) before listing. It was a subsidiary/partner of Bridge (size equivalent to Bloomberg at the time). BDF became independent after Bridge's collapse in the early 2000 , changed its name to IRE and never looked back.

Nearmap was taken over by Ipernica and look where the parent is now? - lol

In both cases, the parent has ceased to exist and the child flourished.